Fujitsu Esprimo E3521-E85 HW6-Award 6.00PG BIOS Setup

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BIOS – Award v6.00PG BIOS setup guidelines

The BIOS setup, also called CMOS setup, is a crucial part of the proper setting up of a PC –
the BIOS (Basic Input Output System) tells the operating system the characteristics of the
main basic components of your PC. Because of this, an incorrectly set up BIOS can result in
some devices not being recognised by the operating system, in below par performance, in
overclocking which could result in your motherboard “frying”, or in device conflicts.

Yet, if you are building a new PC, or upgrading an existing one, you must know how to set up
your BIOS.

The two most important issues as regards the BIOS setup are :

l Who makes it, e.g. Award, American Megatrends (AMI), Phoenix, etc...

l What revision of the BIOS your motherboard has, e.g. v4.51, v5.00, etc..

In this document we are providing setup guidelines for the Award v6.00PG BIOS.

Getting into the Award v6.00 BIOS

r Cold boot your PC (ie. start it from the OFF state).

r When you see Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG at the top of the screen, press the

Delete key repeatedly till you get a blue screen titled :

CMOS Setup Utility – Copyright (C) 1984-2000 Award Software

r You are now in the BIOS/CMOS setup.

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The Main BIOS Menu

When you successfully get into the BIOS setup, you will be presented with the following
menu :

SoftMenu III Setup PC Health Status

Standard CMOS Features Load Fail-Safe Defaults
Advanced BIOS Features Load Optimized Defaults
Advanced Chipset Features Set Password
Integrated Peripherals Save & Exit Setup
Power Management Setup Exit Without Saving
PnP/PCI Configurations

The sections that follow provide guidelines on how to set up the various settings in each
section of the BIOS. We have concentrated only on those settings that may need changing
– if a setting does not appear in this document, leave it as you found it.

Press Enter on a main menu option to go into that section.

To return to the Main Menu from within a section, press Escape.

SoftMenu III Setup

CPU Operating Speed : You must know the speed of your CPU (e.g.

800MHz, 1.2GHz aka 1200MHz, etc...) before you
set up the BIOS, and you must set this parameter
correctly otherwise your PC will either perform
below par, or worse, will be overclocked and will
eventually “fry”.

This is an absolutely vital setting.

CPU Power Supply : CPU Default

Standard CMOS Features

Date : Set it to the correct date. Don’t forget to set the

year !

Time : Set it to the correct time.

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IDE Primary Master : Press Enter on this field.
On the next screen set IDE Primary Master to

Auto and Access Mode to LBA. Then, press
Enter on IDE HDD Auto-Detection.

Verify that your hard disk has been correctly

detected in the shaded fields.

Press Escape to go back to the previous screen.

IDE Primary Slave : Do as above if you have anything connected as

slave to the primary controller, otherwise leave
untouched.

Note : For CD-ROM drives, make sure that the

setting for IDE Primary Slave is set to Auto
otherwise your CD-ROM drive will not get detected
at boot-up.

IDE Secondary Master : Do as above if you have anything connected to it.

IDE Secondary Slave : Do as above if you have anything connected to it.

Advanced BIOS Features

Virus Warning : Disabled
(This is a useless feature which is in any case taken care of by

any good anti-virus software).

CPU Level 1 Cache : Enabled
CPU Level 2 Cache : Enabled
CPU Level 2 Cache ECC
Checking : Enabled
Quick Power On Self Test : Enabled

First Boot Device : HDD-0

(HDD-0 will make your PC try to boot first from the hard disk

connected as “Master” on your Primary IDE Controller. If,
however, you are installing an operating system, or need to
reformat your primary hard disk, then set this to Floppy or
CD-ROM accordingly. Remember, however, to put it back to

HDD-0 once you no longer need to boot from a device other
than your primary hard disk – it protects you from
accidentally booting from virus infected floppy disks).

Second Boot Device : HDD-0

(There is no “Disabled” setting in this particular BIOS. So, if

you do not want your PC to boot from any device other than its
primary hard disk, set this to HDD-0).

Third Boot Device : HDD-0

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